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Not very variable, except possibly in the form of local 

 races — that found in the New Forest, Hants, being unusually 

 white in the male, though, if anything, darker in the female. 

 On the other hand the female in Scotland is sometimes quite 

 of the colour of the other sex. In the collection of the late 

 Mr. F. Bond is a female of a smoky-black colour ; and Mr. 

 Sydney Webb has a male in which the first and second lines 

 are so drawn together as to meet on the dorsal margin. 

 One of the same sex in Mr. S. J. Capper's collection has the 

 ground colour suffused with reddish-grey dusting and the 

 transverse stripes much shaded with red-brown. Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt has another such, also a female similarly but more 

 deeply clouded, and another in which the transverse stripes 

 are thickened and very black. 



On the wing sometimes at the end of May, also in June, 

 July, and even August, influenced apparently both by 

 weather and climate. Mr. F. C. Woodforde informs me 

 that in both 1893 and 1804 he took specimens in the 

 New Forest in the last week of April ; but that upon 

 Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, and in Shropshire, it may be 

 found in August, and has actually been captured when 

 looking for Stilhia anomala. Yet there is no indication 

 of a second generation in the year; all seem to belong 

 to one extended brood. 



Larva moderately stout, the sides much wrinkled ; a thorn- 

 like projection on the twelfth segment points backward ; on 

 the previous segments, from the fifth, the dorsal spots are 

 raised into little warts ; anal segment furnished with two 

 long projecting points ; head rather small and rounded, dull 

 purple ; face whitish ; body dull purple ; a broad whitish or 

 pale grey dorsal stripe proceeds from the head to the end of 

 the dorsal projection on the twelfth segment, on the way 

 dividing pairs of pale grey or whitish spots at the incisions of 

 the segments ; sides blotched with pale grey, which is con- 

 tinued as a distinct line down both pairs of prolegs ; under- 



